This game contain lots of gore and bad language along with sexually explicit dialogues so it should not be played by anyone aged 17 or under.

Personally, I feel the first game was pretty mediocre making this review a bit biased. However, I believe it is extremely better. Movement, combat, powers and the story has a higher bar to its original making it more fun in general. I wouldn't focus too much on the potty language because if you're worried about your child playing this, reseaech the gore factor. Limbs are torn, people can be eaten, zombies roam the streets and even a bit of combat enhancing drugs slide in there too. Overall, if your kid can stomach it, I don't see why not.

If there wasn't a solution for the swearing I would have marked this not for kids. You can skip the cut scenes but what contains the most swearing is the people in free roam and your character swearing during game play. The solution for that is to turn off the dialogue in the game so you can hear the sound effects and music but nobody talks, so you still have sound but you don't hear ah f*** every time someone walks by you. I honestly think the violence can get out of hand but most of the blood is confused from the biomass (the power that makes your claws and etc.). There are literally 2 lines that have sexual references in the whole game that you can see at ESRB and you wont even have to worry about if you turn off the dialogue and skip the cut scenes. In conclusion prototype 2 is ok for your twelve year old and older as long as you trust them to turn off the dialogue and skip the cut scenes.

violent with a lot of curse words

(SPOILER) The rating on this site for many things is wrong, yes the main character does want revenge for only the first third of the game, and even then he is working to take down the organization that created the virus and the person spreading the virus, the other two thirds of the game are dedicated to Heller finding and saving his daughter. Heller also does several things like sparing a man who he blamed, he showed mercy for the families sake this might even be considered a positive message. There may be one small reference on some obscure side quest but nothing in the main game has any relationship to drugs or alcohol. This game does contain one moment where there is a women in a really short dress but that is it, the appropriate age, any one in high school, has already seen worse than in that one seen almost everyday when the weather is warmer. The main problems with this game is the violence and the language. Heller as they say is very liberal with his foul language and so are several of the blackwatch (military division that created the virus) units in the game. There is also A LOT of violence and gore in the game, many of helers attack dismember, cause severe bleeding and several other horrible things to happen during combat, especially against larger enemies like the brawlers. Many people get confused and the the gore is worse than it is because when they only see brief snippets they often confuse biomass as gore, biomass is what the powers are based on, this has a coloring that makes it look very similar to the gore and blood.